President Biden flew to Colorado Springs today, delivered a long graduation address to U.S. Air Force Academy graduates and their families in a packed stadium and didn’t say a word about the U.S. Space Command headquarters.

It was noticed including by the Denver Post, which ran a headline saying Biden, while speaking for about 30 minutes, “didn’t address future of Space Command.” The state’s two senators, U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper had issued a statement before Biden’s arrival urging him “to keep Space Command in Colorado Springs.”

Local Colorado television news had also previewed the visit saying people would be listening for any presidential word about the headquarters.

The relatively new military command, created to fight any attacks on America’s space assets or attacks on America from space, began operations in Colorado Springs. It remained there now, while the Air Force followed Pentagon rules that call for an independent ranking of competing headquarters candidates. That system ranked Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville as the best permanent location for the headquarters.

The rating compared such factors as housing availability and cost, health care, quality of schools and job opportunities for spouses of serving personnel. U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala) said Colorado Springs finished fifth in the selection rankings.

Biden’s graduation speech came a day after the Air Force announced four Space Force missions will be located in Colorado Springs. That decision was being read in Colorado as “suggesting the service may be moving ahead with at least part of the design it originally sought for the new force before it became entangled in politics,” the Associated Press reported shortly after Biden landed.

Former President Trump complicated the base selection in 2021 by saying he “single handedly” chose Alabama to house the headquarters.